U.Mi workshop

I went to Unique Mineral Make Up (U.Mi) workshop. It was very informative! Priscilla (the instructor) taught us so many new knowledge about make up! The information seriously leave me in awe... (mostly shock)

(That kawaii dog behind me is Giselle)

Why? Well, I will tell you girls about it in my next post. For now, I wanna focus on their make up! 

This display set looks modern. (I like the led thingy *giggles*) We get to try their 100% mineral make up, it is safe for all skin to use (even the most sensitive skin). 

Their mineral loose powder comes in 4 different shades. The most popular is no.03, warmer undertone that suits most Asian skin colour. 

Their powder is my favorite product in this brand. It won't oxidize and darken my face by the end of the day and it gave me a natural finish! If I uses them, no one even knows I wear powder. (no kidding #truestory). 

(this picture contain no filter and no edits: after powder application)

At first try, it can't give me the coverage I want as I am still new to applying foundation and concealing with just one loose powder and 2 brushes (one powder brush and one concealing brush).

and then Priscilla demonstrated to me. There is only 3 steps required:

1) pour

(pour the little amount of powder on the lid)

2) Swirl

(swirl the powder evenly on the brush)

3)blend

(blend the mineral powder on my face by doing circle)

Actually if I practiced more, these steps would be a piece of cake! *laughs*

Cause applying other sort of foundations took me quite a while to learn as well.

The one in the middle is their adorable (premium looking) brush! I LOVE GOLD COLOUR SO MUCH! This is definitely my type of brush! 

This brush felt so silky smooth. Not coarse like animal fur! I love it! It hold the powder well too! I used this brush to apply my base make up. 

Now, eyeshadows!!! There are 5 shades, pink, blue, purple, white and brown. My favorite was the pinkish-pearlish colour! All their eyeshadows are shimmery, which makes it easy for everyone to use. (I am bad at using matte eyeshadow #yetanothertruestory) 

(Special thanks to Chency for her hand: her blog link)

You can use several ways to apply these mineral eyeshadows.

1) dry 

(normal way of applying eyeshadow)

2) wet 

(mix it with some water for the colour to be more pigmented)

3) Lips

(mix them with Vaseline and put it on the lips, they are safe so it's okay to do so)

4) nails

(dap some eyeshadow on the transparent nail polish and you can use them as nails colour)

Cool huh?

These are their mascara and gel eyeliner. I like how their gel liner glide easily on my eye lids. It smudges a little on the bottom of my eyes after 1 or 2 hours cause I have watery eyes when I wear contact lens.

These are their lead-free lipsticks that does not last long.

Things that last long contain high amount of chemicals.Their lipsticks are very gentle because even if you have the driest and most chapped lips on this planet you can still use these chemical-free lipsticks, aren't like conventional lipsticks, they won't do any harm. 

(special thanks to Kelly for the swatches demo: her blog link)

These are the swatches. The tone of these lipsticks will change depending on individuals' body temperature, so these shades might not look the same on you.

On the left is shimmer (highlight) powder and on the right is the blusher. They only have one shade for their blush. As I mentioned before about their lipsticks, the tone differs due to the differences of individuals' body temperature. So one blush might create different results on different person's cheeks. 

SO I guess that is! I will do another post about what information I have learned from the workshop. 

You can drop by their Facebook page here. Their website is still under construction.

Hope this helps!
Grace
xoxo

Elianto classic mini brush set review

Hey y'all! I know I reviewed their Kabuki brush recently but I can't help but to review their brush set too! 

Brand: Elianto

Quantity of brushes: 5

Manufacture country: Korea

#Pouch

Hmm... the outlook is plain. The appearance doesn't attract me at all... but the quality of this pouch is good.

This is how it looks like after being opened. If you are wondering, yes, that is not their original sponge. I brought this last year, the sponge is fragile (or maybe I am too strong) so I threw it long time ago. *laughs*

 There is the transparent place where you can place sponges, cotton square pads, cotton buds and etc.

Here is the plastic divider to make sure cosmetic remaining on the brush wouldn't dirty the entire pouch. 

Honestly speaking, this pouch was wonderfully design (not the boring appearance though), it is convenient and I bring it with me during travels or whenever I needed a touch up.

#Brushes

This brush is palm sized. Appearance wise, all brushes look as boring as the pouch. Function wise, it can be used as a blusher and a highlighting brush.

It's flat, so if you turn this way you can use it as a highlighter brush. 

 Turn this way, a blusher brush! Voila!

It feels like bristle rather than fibre... It's coarse... 

 Demonstration time! I dapped twice on the blush.

It pick up the minimum amount of powder... ~(=w=~) I have to reapply a few times before this brush can give me that flush look.

This is a lip brush, I never like using brushes to apply lip products so it's brand new *giggles*. 

Anyhow, I can still take a picture of it just to show y'all. (Sorry it's out of focus LOL)

 Eyeshadow sponge applicator! The tip is precise (cause it's pointy), so it can reach inner corner of my eyes. I have washed this for more than 3 times and it still works like a charm!

(Eyeshadow behind is Dollywink's. Click here to see my review.)

One dap on the eyeshadow and it can pick up appropriate amount of powder to apply on my eye lids.

Here is one of my favorite eyeshadow brush! It's small, precise and very very easy to use. I simply love it! Because it's flat, I sometimes use it to shade my nose too~ Work like a charm *throw flower petals* 

It doesn't stab my skin like how their blusher brush's bristle do. It's soft and pick up an appropriate amount of eyeshadow in just one dap! 

This is a mini angle brush. Mostly used for eyebrows (or sometimes eyeliner, eyeshadow. Depends on your likings). I have collected around 7-8 similar brushes (I have this habit... don't know why LOL) and this one have the thickest fibre. 

What do I mean? Well, let me do a demonstration then~ 

See that brown spot on my hand? Well, it's one dap of the brush on my skin. It creates this thick spot, making it hard to manipulate my brow shape. I like thinner sort of angle brush, for me this is too hard to control. I only use this to apply my under eyes (or most of the time I don't even use it). 

Well, those are just my preferences. Besides, their price is very reasonable (as usual for Elianto)! I brought it when they have half price sales and got it for around RM15+ (I have forgotten the price *laughs*). Nowadays, I can't find a brush set with this quality for this price. 

I guess that's it! 

My friends said my earrings looks like their keychain... (=_=")

Hope my review helps!

Grace

xoxo

Elianto Kabuki brush review

Hi girls! I am going to review on *drums roll* My one and only kabuki brush! *throws confetti* 

This is how it looks like before I gave it a complete make over *laughs*

Brand: Elianto

"Ingredients": Synthetic fibre

Manufacture country: Korea

This is the older version, the latest one have brown colour fibre.

This is how it looks like after the make over! I can't stand plain packaging! I love cuter or royal (princess) sort of packaging. ~(=w=~)

Now, back to the topic. 

The brush itself is very very soft because it made out of synthetic fibre. Even so, it still can "scoop" up quite an amount of powder.

I did a demonstration sadly, I can't really see it in the picture... The product on the brush might fall out if you swing it, the brush doesn't have a good grip in terms of locking the product in it simply because it's not animal's fur.

Anyhow, after you apply it on your face it feels so... nice! I love that feeling when the brush touches my face! I don't really like animal fur brushes, it might give a good grip of the powder but it is not as soft as synthetic ones. 

Oh right, Elianto sell this at a very reasonable price (most of their products are at this price range). This brush's original price is around rm29 but then they had this crazy 50% off sales so I brought it with a even cheaper price! *giggles*

I brought this around a year ago, I think it's last year's year end sales and I washed this brush for more than 5 times but it still looks fine. Oh! If I am not mistaken they discontinued this and launched a new kabuki brush with brown fibre. 

If you girls are wondering how I helped my brush to do a "make over", it was by using pearl stickers haha! 

I guess that's it! 

I took this picture during Bon Odori festival. Also, I sent this picture to the publisher and I am in Mina's magazine (November issue) again. *shy*

p/s: I love kabuki brushes cause I think it gives me a perfect finish in my base make up routine. Sadly I have no budget to try more brushes and this one works like a charm! *blush* I love it!

Hope this review helps! Tata!

Grace

xoxo

p/p/s: I wasn't sponsored just feel like sharing with y'all my favorite (and my only) kabuki brush. *throws flower petals*

Kracie eye zone mask review

Hi pretties and handsome! I have been busy with life and assignments nowadays and almost forget to spend time with my beloved family (≧o≦) Yikes! I have to put "family time" in my schedule too. *laughs*
I know this is not appetizing but I feel like starting this post with a troll face (>‘o’)>
Now... behold!

Brand: Kracie

Name: HADABISEI eye zone mask

Origin: Made in Japan

(the girl in the picture is me cosplaying as Asuna, I was lazy to put watermarks on pictures LOL)

It says here it focuses on eye wrinkles that was developed due to dryness. It also contains royal jelly, retinol, hyaluronic acid and lemon extract to moisturize and soften the eye area.

Yes, I have no idea how to read Japanese too but I kind of get the idea how to use it after using so many skin care products. ┌( ಠ_ಠ)┘

How to use it:

1) Cleanse your face and apply toner.

2) Put the eye mask on for 5 minutes. (If your eye area is extra dry you can put it on for 10 minutes)

3) after that you can apply your normal skin care.

This is how it looks like after it was taken out from the packaging. (◕‿◕✿)  Red polkadots makes it looks so moe (cute)!

There are 60 pieces in this tiny package, sufficient for 30 days usage. You are suppose to use it constantly for a whole month to see the result. Oh, and this reminds me of wet tissue. (─‿‿─)  

Opening it *drum rolls*

 There are another piece of plastic covering the eye masks (can't really see it properly in the picture), it prevents the masks from drying up.

note: I accidentally put it up side down one day and the liquid makes the seal loses it's stickiness ●﹏●  so remember to only store it with the seal facing up!

The texture feels like cotton/paper masks. ＼(^ω^＼)

(>‘o’)> Please excuse my "naked" face 

This is how it looks like during application, it is a moon-shaped normal eye mask. It felt like an ordinary mask securely "glued" to my skin. (°∀°)  After I take it off I will dap the excessive essence on eye lids and under eyes. 

Furthermore, I have been using this for 2 weeks now and it keeps my eye area hydrated cause there is one point of time I wore too much make up and my face was cracking from dryness (except for my eyes area LOL #truestory)

So I guess that's it! Hope it helps! 

Grace
xoxo

Kracie

Aloha! (✿◠‿◠) I went to my first blogger event and it was a fantastic experience! It was held in Fullhouse and the environment makes me feel so relaxed. What a nice place to hang out with friends (▰˘◡˘▰) 

Now, allow me to proceed to the event! 

Kracie was originally named Kanebo, they separated Toiletries, Pharmaceuticals and Foods Divisions from Kanebo in year 2007. It is originated from Japan. (• ε •)

(This name makes me feel so de ja vu since some of my friends called me Gracie LOL)

Their shampoo and hair care range have such a cute flowery packaging. (─‿‿─) This is their moist hair care suitable for dry and medium hair and they smell like flowery fruits.

Furthermore, their hair care range contain moisture ingredients like red rice extract, rice (germ) oil, camellia extract and etc. All these combination of flowers and rice will lock moisture into the hair.

I felt in love with their light refreshing scent! ＼(^ω^＼)  That smell makes me feel like I am sitting in the middle a garden filled with blossomed flowers! ♥‿♥

Oh, that cute glass bottle above contains their treatment oil that can be applied directly on the hair. (I like things that look adorable. Ekk! ヾ(●⌒∇⌒●)ﾉ 

Their hairstylist done several demonstrations on model's hair with their products and believe me, the differences are huge. Unfortunately I did not manage to take a picture of her because I was too shy to do so... o(╥﹏╥)o 

This guy helped us to demonstrate how to use their masks because all the girls have make up on! (●´ω｀●) You have no idea how hard I laughed. That is their best selling charcoal mask.

Their skin care range have daily masks, daily eye masks and etc. I know Korea have these sort of masks but never knew Japan have them too.

They have 40 pieces of paper masks in a zip bag. 

Their eye masks are in resealable packages (kind of reminds me of wet tissues LOL) and it's in polkadots! So adorable (ﾟヮﾟ)  

Meanwhile, we get to eat these wonderful looking food throughout the presentation.

I guess that is it for this post! Thank you for giving me this opportunity to attend a beauty blogger event. (∪ ◡ ∪)